PETRICHOR // Joji x reader

°•'"why would you scoop it back in??"'•°

"Fuck."

You laid on the floor looking at the night sky, your lip slowly getting colder as the warmth left along with the red liquid.

Did I bust my fuckin lip?
..I'm gonna need some peas.

You took your phone out of your leather jacket pocket and started typing in 'convenience stores near me' and waited for the results. Well, until someone tripped over your leg.

"FUCK"
you looked over as someone stumbles past you and falls, you sigh "can you watch where you're going next time?"
The figure stands up as he gains balance and readjusts his hoodie,
"you're on the fucking sidewalk outside of a library, fuck do you mean 'watch where you're going'" You sigh in response and continue,
"because obviously you werent watching where you were going if there's a whole body on the floor and you kept going ?" The figure stared in disbelief for a while and muttered "I'm- whatever." to themself as they walked off.
Geez.. anyways.
You get up and start heading towards the location your phone directed you to.

Ding Ding.

You walk in and head straight to the freezer section, receiving some strange looks along the way. Before getting to the peas you catch a glimpse of the ice cream,
rocky road night perhaps?
Before you can open the door your reflection stops you.
"HOLY SHIT"
That bitch gave me a fucking gash??? I thought it was just my lip…fuck. You look around to see a young woman holding her child looking terrified. I mean, you did just yell 'holy shit' in a quiet convenience store.
"Oh..uh, my bad.."
The lady walked off whispering to her child, sneaking glances at you back and forth,
"don't end up like that, ok sweetie" you scoffed and muttered "ok yeah fuck you too" before walking over to the vegetables and reaching in, before you can reach the vegetables your hand makes contact with another hand
"oh shit my ba-"
"my fucking god."
You look up and see the same stranger from before, one hand on the peas and the other holding a slushie.
"You're kidding"
"I wish i was"
you look at him as he slowly grabs the peas
"well, uh, I'm just gonna go ahead and grab these-"
you tighten the grip on the peas
"oh i don't think so, see, this is the last pack of peas"
"yeah, uh, but see, technically speaking here, i need these peas to treat the wound you gave me"
He uses his pointer finger to motion around his cheek. It was uh, very scraped up,
when did that even get there?
"Yeah but see i just need these more so I'm gonna go ahead and-" you take the peas out the freezer and attempt to walk away when youre pulled back by the sheer force this man was gripping the peas with. "Look ive had a shitty night I literally just need these peas" he says with a slightly irritated look. "Well haven't we all had a shitty night" you say sarcastically, placing your other hand on the bag of peas, pulling. Before you knew it you were playing tug of war with a stranger, who was also attempting to balance his slushie, using a bag of peas. "Can you please just give me these peas??" He says through gritted teeth "I would if i didn't need them" you reply from your own set of gritted teeth. You both kept pulling, but eventually the bag couldn't take it and burst in the aisle. It happened in slow motion really. You fell down from the sudden lack of force, peas all over the floor. You looked over at the stranger and saw him look in pure sadness as his slushie fell on the floor.
Blue raspberry.
Out of pure manic he bent down and tried scooping the slushie into the cup.
"That's really gross"
"oh shut up-"

"what the hell is going on here ?!"

You sat with the stranger on a curb of the convenience store parking lot after the manager had kicked you out. You sat in silence,
awkward silence,
you mustered all your courage and uttered a simple few words,
"fuck that guy" you waited awkwardly for any kind of response, after what seemed like a century, the stranger replied

"yeah, uh, fuck that guy"

you took this as a chance to look at him, and now that you saw him, he wasn't all that bad, he wore a black hoodie with a chain, some sweatpants and some slides, yet he looked..good.

you broke the awkward eye contact and looked down at his slushie,
"are you gonna drink that?" He broke out of his trance as he looked at the slushie, then you, then back at the slushie. You both looked at it as it was obviously mixed in with dust and dirt and whatever other atrocities lived on the convenience store floor.
"Oh, uh, nah…its..kinda gross" he swished around the cup in silence before you burst out in laughter. "What so funny-"
you tried to speak through your laughter "it's just- you- i looked and you were-" he looked confused but couldn't evade the light smile creeping up on his face,
your laugh was pretty contagious, "im- you-

why would you scoop it back in???"

You laughed as you wiped a tear "like that's so gross why would you do that-" he looked at the slushie with wide eyes and also started to laugh with his cheeks tinted red from embarrassment "I just- i don't know-"

You both had calmed down and continued to sit in silence, comfortable silence this time.
"So what's your name?" You looked over at the stranger as he focused his attention back on you,
"George..uh, you?"
"(y/n)"
he nodded and averted his gaze to your lip "so uh, how did that happen"
"it's a long story..uh, sorry you, tripped over me by the way" you said, feeling slightly bashful at the situation
"oh uh it's fine…do you uh, usually…lay on the ground? Or am I the first victim?"
You chuckled at his words and replied "uh, well you're the first victim i see more than once"
"so this is a common occurrence??" "Kind of?"
"I see"
You both looked off in silence but your silence was interrupted by the wince at the sudden burning sensation in your abdomen, you lifted your jacket to see your whole side was bruising.
George looked over and slightly frowned at the bruise, then proceeded to realize what he was looking at and quickly looked away.
"Oh noo you saw my belly button" you sarcastically remarked,
" it's fine you don't have to look away" you stated as you put down your jacket. He looked at you in slight embarrassment and started standing up
"right..uh..it's like 3am, i should get going"
"Oh yeah, for sure"
You watched as he walked away and stopped, he turned around and came back, putting the blue raspberry slushie down next to you.
"I'm not gonna drink that-"
"For the bruising, the peas ripped so uh..it's uh, something cold"
"Oh..uh, thank you"
"Yeah"
He turned around and started to walk away. You went on your phone and started googling directions to your apartment from here, you stood up and started walking until you felt a tap on your shoulder,
"what- oh, George" you looked up at the familiar stranger
"Yeah, do you uh.."

"Do you wanna go to my place?"